题目内容
Driving In America
Keep Right
The traffic follows the “keep right rule”. While driving, drive on the right side of the road. On one-way, multiple lanes(车道) road, the right-most lane would be slowest and left-most lane is fastest.
Hand Signals
Though indicators(车的指示灯) are used for the purpose of showing which direction you are going, knowing some hand signals is very important and are usually always asked in a driving test. When you want to turn right, you can put your left hand out of the window and point upward. When you want to make a left turn, you can reach your left arm out of the window and point to the left. If you want to slow down or stop, you can just point downward.
School Buses
Yellow school buses have flashing red lights and stop signs that reach out from the driver’s side. The drivers use these warning signals when letting pupils on and off. No matter which side of the road you are traveling on, if you come upon a school bus with its lights flashing and a stop sign used, you must stop. It’s the law. Remain stopped until the lights stop flashing or the stop sign is removed.
Using the Horn
Using horns is not common in America. Actually they are very rarely used. You may use your horn to warn walkers or other drivers of possible trouble or to avoid accidents. Do not use your horn to express anger or complain about other drivers’ mistakes or to try to get a slow driver to move faster.
【小题1】If Freddy is asked to go to Florida in the shortest time from Missouri, on which lane in the picture below should he drive his car according to Paragraph 1?
A.Lane ①. | B.Lane ②. | C.Lane ③. | D.Lane ④. |
A.Place left hand out of the window pointing upward. |
B.Put left hand out of the window pointing downward. |
C.Reach left arm out of the window pointing to the left. |
D.Place left hand out of the window pointing backward. |
A.Use horns sometimes to warn passers-by of danger. |
B.Drive on before the stop sign on a school bus is removed. |
C.Use hand signals instead of indicators to show which direction you are going. |
D.Do not use warning signals in the school bus until all the pupils get on the bus. |
A.Passers-by. | B.Pupils. | C.Policemen. | D.Drivers. |
【小题1】A
【小题2】C
【小题3】A
【小题4】D
解析【小题1】细节题。结合the right-most lane would be slowest and left-most lane is fastest可知答案。因为Freddy要用最短的时间,所以其速度要快,所以最左边的车道。
【小题2】细节题。结合When you want to make a left turn, you can reach your left arm out of the window and point to the left可知答案。
【小题3】细节题。结合You may use your horn to warn walkers or other drivers of possible trouble or to avoid accidents可知答案。
【小题4】写作意图题。 文章主要介绍了开车时的注意事项,所以是写给司机们的。
Believe it or not, optical illusion(错觉) can cut highway crashes.
Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. Bent strips, called chevrons(人字形标志), painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down.
Now the American Automobile Association Foundations For Traffic Safety in Washington D.C. is planning to repeat Japan’s success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway crashes.
Excessive(过分) speed plays a major role in as much as one fifty of all fatal traffic accidents, according to the foundation. To help reduce those accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas where speed-related hazards(危险) are the greatest-curves, exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges.
Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars painted across roads can initially cut the average speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used to seeing the painted bars.
Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane(车道) appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction of highway speed and the number of traffic accidents.
【小题1】The passage mainly discusses________.
A.a new way of highway speed control |
B.a new pattern for painting highway |
C.a new way of training drivers |
D.a new type of optical illusion |
A.they should avoid speed-related hazards |
B.they are driving in the wrong lane |
C.they should slow down their speed |
D.they are coming near to the speed limit |
A. the straight, horizontal bars |
B.greatest curves |
C.exit slops , traffic circles, bridges |
D. Over-speed driving |
A.can keep drivers awake |
B.can cut road accidents in half |
C.will look more attractive |
D.will have a longer effect on drivers |
A.try out the Japanese method in certain areas |
B.change the road signs across the country |
C.replace straight, horizontal bars with chevrons |
D.repeat the Japanese road patterns |